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Bay ash^ and a tree belong-ing- to the natural order 

 Leguminos(B, with axillary racemes of white apeta- 

 lous flowers, long, broad, flat, many seeded legumes, 

 larg-e, bipinnate leaves, leaflets oval, one inch long-, 

 — and having dark fissured bark ; on the flat stiff" soil 

 grew iron-bark, apple-tree, and another species of 

 Angophora, with long lanceolate leaves, seed vessels 

 as large as the egg of a common fowl, and a smooth 

 yellow bark. 



Aug. 27th. — ^This day being Sunday we had 

 prayers at eleven o'clock. We saved the blood of 

 the sheep we had killed for to-day's food, and 

 having cut up the heart, liver, and kidneys, we mixed 

 it all with a little flour and boiled it for breakfast. 

 By this means we made some small saving, and it 

 was a dish that we were very fond of. We saved 

 all the wool that we could get fi-om our sheep, for 

 the purpose of stuffing our saddles, a process which 

 was frequently required, owing to the poor condition 

 of our horses. 



Aug. 28th. — We started early this morning, but 

 had not travelled far when one of our horses fell 

 from weakness J we placed him on his legs four 

 times during the day, but finding- the poor animal 

 could not walk, we shot him and took sufficient 

 meat from him with us to last for two daj^s. After 

 making but a short stage, over iron-stone ridges, 

 covered with stringy-bark, and loamy flats, producing 

 Melaleucas and Orevilleas, we camped beside a 

 small creek, in the sandy bed of which there was no 



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